Metallic Materials Data Handbook

Abstract:
The design engineer faces an ever-increasing demand
for products with a performance that must be substantiated under stringent
conditions of cost and environment. Assuming the basic skill of the designer,
no other single factor can contribute more to the economic preparation
of a satisfactory, competitive engineering design than ready access to
good reliable design data.

Data concerning aerospace structural materials are widely scattered and,
when located, are of variable quality and relevance to industrial applications.
The task of collecting and evaluating all the relevant data available
on a particular material property is time consuming and therefore expensive.
Even if such a task is performed it is often found that the customer will
wish to view the design, not against some locally derived data, but against
what can be demonstrated to be the best data that can be ascertained and
which are vouched for by a significant cross-section of the engineering
and scientific community concerned with both derivation and application
of materials data. Accordingly, this Handbook has been prepared to meet
design requirements with regard to aerospace structural metallic materials
properties for both the designer and his customer and, by serving the
needs of many, accomplishes the task at much lower cost and with a higher
reliability than could the individual.